Maurice Wilkins
Also known as Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins, Maurice H F Wilkins, Maurice H. F. Wilkins, Maurice Hugh Frederic Wilkins
New Zealand-born English physicist and biologist
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Maurice Wilkins was a New Zealand-born physicist and biologist who worked in England. His research contributed to our understanding of the structure of molecules, which is important for understanding how life works at the most basic level.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 6
Top works
- The Third Man of the Double Helix
- I Spy Halloween
- Old boys of Bangor Grammar School killed in Second World War (1939-1945)
- The seeker
- Sonnets of love and friendship
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Puerto Rico
- Active from
- 1953-03-10
Discography
Article · Português
Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins, CBE (Pongaroa, 15 de dezembro de 1916 —Londres, 5 de outubro de 2004) foi um Biofísico neozelandês. Seus pais vieram da Irlanda; seu pai, Edgar Henry Wilkins era um médico na School Medical Service e era muito interessado em pesquisas mas teve poucas oportunidades para fazer. Casou-se com Patricia Ann Chidgey em 1959; eles têm uma filha Sarah e um filho George. Foi agraciado com o Nobel de Fisiologia ou Medicina de 1962, juntamente com Francis Crick e James Watson, por suas contribuições na descoberta da estrutura em dupla hélice do DNA, que foram baseadas no trabalho de Rosalind Franklin.[1]
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1916 births2004 deathsAcademics of King's College LondonAlumni of St John's College, CambridgeAlumni of the University of BirminghamBritish fellows of the Royal SocietyBritish molecular biologistsBritish Nobel laureatesCommanders of the Order of the British EmpireEnglish biophysicistsEnglish Nobel laureatesEnglish physicists